We have collected 24 kilograms of crown caps at our head office over the past few months.
To mark World Recycling Day, we handed them in to the "BlechWech" collection initiative in Cologne. The initiative forwards the collected caps to an iron and raw materials trade, which recycles them. 

A large proportion of crown caps are made of tinplate - a soft sheet steel. If they are recycled, they can be reused by the metalworking industry, for example in the production of new car body parts, after appropriate processing. This saves resources and reduces waste. Sheet metal recycling consumes only a fraction of the energy that would be required for extraction from primary raw materials. The equivalent value of the crown cap material is donated directly to SOS Children's Villages for the benefit of a mother and child clinic in Somalia.

Since 2023, there have been soft drinks free of charge in our head office, which the management has made available to colleagues. The crown caps donated come from the drinks campaign and our colleagues' private collections.

A few weeks ago, we also handed in a few hundred "real" corks from our colleagues' households for NABU's #KorkenFürDenKranich campaign in cooperation with the Lufthansa Group and other companies. The proceeds from the cork recycling will be used to support crane conservation projects in Spain - the home of the cork oaks - and Germany.